Eduardo Eddie Canales This is Me

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1. 1. About NNIRR

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   Published on: 12/19/2007   Last Visited: 12/19/2007

   Eduardo "Eddie" Canales Born of migrant farm worker parents, Eddie spent his early years in a rural, migrant border town outside of Texas, while his father worked in steel mills in Gary, Indiana and East Chicago. They were poor: he did not have the luxury of inside bathroom facilities until 6th grade. Early jobs included farm work, shoe shining, barber/beauty shop sweeping and the neighborhood youth corps, followed by factory work, cafeteria cleanup, and bottling plant/warehouse work.
   
   After junior college, Eddie attended the University of Houston. There he became involved with MAYO and La Raza Unida Party, beginning a long history of political activism and organizing. He has served the social and economic justice movements in many capacities and with several organizations, such as the Congreso de Atzlan (the National Committee of La Raza Unida), the Texas Farmworkers, the Longshoremen, SEIU's School District Campaign of custodians and cafeteria workers, and Centro Aztlan in Houston, where he as a Director for ten years. Eduardo has been an organizer in Colorado, New Mexico, Eastern Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming; he has agitated, organized, negotiated and provided direct services around issues ranging from economic and labor justice to anti-police brutality.

2. 2. Bannerman Fellowship Program: 2001 Fellows

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   Published on: 1/1/2001   Last Visited: 11/6/2007

   EDUARDO CANALES
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   An organizer of the third party movement, La Raza Unida, in Texas in the 1970s, Eduardo Canales has been a community and labor activist ever since. He worked on SEIU's ground-breaking Justice for Janitors campaign in Denver and has been a strong voice within the labor movement for racial equity and a progressive position on immigration. Eddie has played a leading role in immigrant rights coalitions in Colorado and Texas, and is currently board chair of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. He is an organizer for the Rocky Mountain Council of the Carpenters Union.

3. 3. NNIRR: About Us: Board of Directors

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   Published on: 8/15/2007   Last Visited: 8/15/2007

   Eduardo Canales, Mountain West Regional Council, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Denver